Comments Thread For: “Fighting Words” – Mosley vs Mora Debacle: Caveat Empty

[DARKSEID]

I think PPV should return some of the money if the fight end up been crap. They should be concern about keeping customer's as much as making the money.
I know PPV customer felt like they burn money last Sat. Can't blaim them either.

yeah and I should get a free ******* everytime I go to the dmv because they make me wait so long.

Stop smoking so much crack- that's never gonna happen.

[BattlingNelson]

Fine piece by Greisman.

[starsjuicebar]

A group of freinds get together and one of them have the PPV at his house and the next time someone else has it ,these shows are making me run out of freinds.

[imisupu]

yeah and I should get a free ******* everytime I go to the dmv because they make me wait so long.

Stop smoking so much crack- that's never gonna happen.

are you out of your damm mind I have never seen a P4P list with Andre Ward ranked over Manny and Paul Williams. What are you thinking about you should get a lifetime ban from commenting on this website for that!

[sw33tsci3nc3]

First of all...

...if you bought the fight (which I did), you didn't do so because of the so-called Headliner...You did it because of the chance to mainly see Canelo fight. Even though he fought a granite chinned bum...it was so worth it. Seeing Ponce De Leon and Ortiz was a bonus as well. Soon, and deservedly so, we will all be paying to see Canelo fight.

[gambleer]

I thought Compubox numbers were BS and Mosley was frustrated in most of the rounds.
Mora was superior in the inside (even when he was against the ropes) and in the outside, and was the one landing the clean punches (they were few but Mosley was landing nothing but gloves, arms and air).
This fight reminds me a lot Froch-Dirrel and I had Dirrel and Mora winning.

[edgarg]

by David P. Greisman - Is it worth it?

This is the question asked first by boxing promoters, then later by boxing fans.

Is it worth it, as a promoter, to put a fight on pay-per-view? Is it worth it, as a fan, to buy it?

Increasingly often for promoters, the answer is “yes.” Increasingly often for fans, the answer is “yes” beforehand, “no” afterward, then “yes” again later.

That is why the boxing match this past Saturday between Shane Mosley and Sergio Mora was on pay-per-view.

HBO wouldn’t pay for it to be on a “World Championship Boxing” broadcast, choosing against subsidizing the fighters’ paychecks with a sizeable license fee. There were other fights its subscribers would rather see, other fights the network would rather spend its money on.

But fans would pay for it – a fraction of the number that would tune in on HBO, yet enough of them that the promoters and fighters would profit.

It did not matter that Mosley was coming off a decisive loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr., a night in which Mosley had one big moment as the result of two big punches – but that moment was the only round that Mosley won.

It did not matter that Mora was more than two years removed from his only win of true consequence, a decision victory over the late Vernon Forrest. Three months after that, Forrest had beaten Mora more decisively than Mora had beat him. Mora fell out of the spotlight and off the map for a year and a half.

It did not matter that the match paired an aging fighter with an awkward boxer, that the pairing of such styles produced a debacle in which Mosley spent much of the night pursuing because Mora spent much of the night not punching. [Click Here To Read More]

Qulity as usual David. I particularly liked the "Caveat Empty" in the Headline, as well as the ".......not for the "feint" of heart".......

Let me wish you a Chag Sameach, and many of them.